Perspectives on evidence-based design

With the requirements put on healthcare infrastructure and the multitude of demands and criteria in each design project, it is a challenge to get it “right”, if at all possible. To address and deal with this situation the healthcare environment needs to be designed according to the best available research, practice and with processes open to innovation and knowledge development. One way of doing this is to search for research-based data that can be found in research papers and reports. One such report is EBD 2020 – Evidence-Based Design, Research to Support the Design of Physical Environments in Healthcare published by the Centre for Healthcare Architecture. Against this backdrop we discuss perspectives on the use of evidence in design and how this furthers the quality of the resulting designs.

Program

Introduction
Göran Lindahl, PhD, professor, director of Centre for Healthcare Architecture.

The EBD report, why and what is it about
Ásgeir Sigurjónsson, architect, Centre for Healthcare Architecture.

Use of Evidence in Practice
Mike Apple, architect, health environments planner, HDR.

Results and comments from paper A Systematic Review of Research Gaps in the Built Environment of Inpatient Healthcare Settings
Anna Anåker, PhD, RN, senior lecturer, Dalarna University.

Research on evidence for Healthcare Infrastructures – Examples from Italian research partnership
Stefano Capolongo, architect, PhD, professor in Hospital Design and Urban Health, Design & Health Lab, Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano. 

Andrea Brambilla, architect, PhD, researcher in Hospital Design, Design & Health Lab, Deptartment ABC, Politecnico di Milano.

Discussion
Moderated by Göran Lindahl, CVA.